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Adrian Ziderman

Council Title:

Elected Trustee, Council member

Term of office as a TrusteeSeptember 2015-2017 First term

Term of office as a Council memberMarch 2013-2015 First term

Adrian Ziderman was born in the UK and educated at Cambridge and Stanford universities and at the LSE (Ph.D.). He has served in universities in the UK, the US, Canada, China and Israel and was formerly Senior Economist for Human Resources at the World Bank, Washington, DC. He is currently Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor Emeritus in Economics and Business Administrationat Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

His main research interests are: the economics and financing of education; the economics, evaluation and finance of vocational education and training; and university funding, including student loans and cost-sharing. He has served as consultant in these areas to international institutions including UNESCO, the World Bank, GTZ, ILO, and the British Council, DANIDA, Turkish Higher Education Council, the Asian Development Bank, as well as to government ministries inthe Republic of Georgia, Israel, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and Zambia.